Countdown to DOOMSDAY!

Countdown to DOOMSDAY! is a top-down 2D stealth action game with an emphasis on secrets, puzzle-solving and time management.

The player controls Captain Crumpitt, an anxious military officer that has to navigate through the Burpenson Air Force Base to solve puzzles in dedicated rooms in order to uncover  individual letters which composes a secret code, each of them encoded for printing into fax machines scattered all across, that they must input in the terminal found in the office of his “knocked out” superior, General Griffin, in which the player started, before the time limit of 30 minutes lapses.

While exploring the base, the player will occasionally have to deal with enemy soldiers that invaded the base with the order to arrest your unruly superior. They will have the choice to sneak through them undetected or shoot them down with the two weapons they can obtain.

PATCH NOTES:

1.1.0 (July 9, 2025)

• Implemented scene switching to the bad ending variant of the Game Over screen when the game’s countdown lapses
• Implemented dynamic music that shifts in tempo depending on the remaining time left on the countdown
• Improved the behaviour of enemy AI, including their pathfinding which is now grid-based and their movement speed
• Improved signs & feedback (player/enemy knockback, hurting animation, blinking frame, camera shake)
• Collectable items such as medipacks and ammo packs have been placed around the game world and also gets dropped by enemies when defeated
• Changed the behaviour of fax machines so that every one of them properly trigger the animation before adding the fax item into the scene
• Fixed the error where an invisible hint envelope that isn’t meant to be collected, as it doesn’t tie with the predefined terminal code selected for the current session, can be so
• Fixed the error where the player character is left in limbo when switching from one room to the other
• Text descriptions have been added to the many items that lacked them in the inventory screen, namely the secret collectables
• Removed controller support due to weird conflicts

CONTROLS:

Keyboard/Mouse (QWERTY)

• Move: WASD Keys
• Interact: E Key
• Use Cricket Bat: Left Mouse Click
• Shoot with Pistol: Right Mouse Click
• Sneak: Shift Key
• Inventory: Q Key

GAME OFF 2024 COMMENTS:

“This was pretty creative and a neat twist on a mixture of genres/games (besides being replayable too), well done!”

- Motwera

“Really nice looking and has a real fun concept, it gets my highest rating: good!”

- LivingBodyPillo

“Your game was super fun! I enjoyed the art and music, and the timer constantly counting down definitely added some anxiety when mixed with the music. Great work!”

- sicklestudios

“As I heard of the theme I thought a LOT of people would lean more heavily on "mystery" than "secrets"; however, you were different in the aspect that you went straight to secret codes and added a stealth mechanic as a little special something: unbelievably good!”

- Rebooting_TimeEnd

“Fun game! Played it on my Steam Deck while camping at local park on a rainy day! BIVOU FTW”

- TotallyLegitCommenter

Thumbnail art done by Pat Caldora (Bluesky/Instagram)